Even the commies understand..
1 posted on
08/13/2009 3:17:41 AM PDT by
Cronos
To: Cronos
A Paris swimming pool has refused entry to a young Muslim woman wearing a "burqini," a swimsuit covering most of the body, officials said Wednesday, adding to tensions over Muslim dress in France.
The incident came as French lawmakers conduct hearings on whether to ban the burqa after President Nicolas Sarkozy said the head-to-toe body covering and veil was "not welcome" in France, home to Europe's biggest Muslim minority.
Officials in the Paris suburb of Emerainville said they let the woman swim in the pool in July wearing the "burqini," designed for Muslim women who want to swim without revealing their bodies.
But when she returned in August, they decided to apply hygiene rules and told her she could not swim if she insisted on wearing the garment, which resembles a wetsuit with built-in hood.
Pool staff "reminded her of the rules that apply in all (public) swimming pools which forbid swimming while clothed," said Daniel Guillaume, an official with the pool management.
Le Parisien newspaper said the woman, identified by her first name Carole, was a French convert to Islam and that she was determined to go to the courts to challenge the decision.
"Quite simply, this is segregation," the newspaper quoted her as saying. "I will fight to try to change things. And if I see that the battle is lost, I cannot rule out leaving France."
The newspaper ran a photo of the woman sporting her three-piece "burqini" which she said she purchased in Dubai during a recent holiday.
"I bought it thinking that I could enjoy swimming without having to uncover myself," she said.
Local mayor Alain Kelyor said "all this has nothing to do with Islam," adding that the "burqini" was "not an Islamic swimsuit; that type of suit does not exist in the Koran," the Muslim holy book.
France has set up a special panel of 32 lawmakers to consider whether a law should be enacted to bar Muslim women from wearing the burqa.
In an address to parliament in June, Sarkozy said the burka was not a symbol of religious faith but a sign of women's "subservience" and declared that it was "not welcome" in staunchly secular France.
The country has had a long-running debate on how far it is willing to go to accommodate Islam without undermining the tradition of separating church and state, enshrined in a flagship 1905 law.
In 2004, it passed a law banning headscarves or any other "conspicuous" religious symbols in state schools to defend secularism.
The burqa debate in France has drawn chilling warnings from Al-Qaeda that it was ready to "take revenge for the honour of our daughters and sisters."
Communist MP Andre Gerin, who heads the National Assembly's burqa commission, called the "burqini" ridiculous and said pool administrators were right.
"We can't allow this. This is proof that there is a political agenda behind such dress," Gerin told Le Parisien.
2 posted on
08/13/2009 3:17:53 AM PDT by
Cronos
(Ceterum censeo, Mecca et Medina delendae sunt + Jindal 2K12)
To: Cronos
understand what? How micromanage people’s lives? It’s not the govt’s business.
3 posted on
08/13/2009 3:20:29 AM PDT by
Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
To: Cronos
Good on Sarkozy . When in France ...or get the f*** OUT !
4 posted on
08/13/2009 3:25:27 AM PDT by
sushiman
To: Cronos
Anytime one culture feels another culture is encroaching on their society, it is their inherent duty to make the other culture as uncomfortable and unwelcome as possible.
9 posted on
08/13/2009 3:48:23 AM PDT by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: Cronos
They even want to pervert or language. Burqini? When, in ENGLISH, do you ever use a “Q” without a “U”? Isn’t the “K” sound supposed to be spelled with a “K” or sometimes a “C”?
12 posted on
08/13/2009 4:05:43 AM PDT by
BuffaloJack
(thirst for absolute power is the natural disease of monarchy - Thomas Paine)
To: Cronos
I think the muzzies should riot.
13 posted on
08/13/2009 4:15:05 AM PDT by
scoobysnak71
(Just a National Security Threat, trying to get a nut.)
To: Cronos
France is growing cajones while the USA is losing theirs.
20 posted on
08/13/2009 4:33:05 AM PDT by
Red in Blue PA
(If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
To: Cronos
Tomorrow’s Headline: Teenage Unemployed Muslim Terrorist Set Fire to Pool; Roast 148 Kids in Flaming Inferno; Gov’t Immediately Gives In To Their Demands!
22 posted on
08/13/2009 5:00:09 AM PDT by
Doc Savage
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These are municipal, public swimming pools.Why don't the photos ever shpw the face is covered?
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33 posted on
08/13/2009 4:38:54 PM PDT by
Cincinna
(TIME TO REBUILD * PALIN * JINDAL * CANTOR 2012)
To: Cronos
I guess I’ve seen everything now. A swim suit being banned because its not revealing enough? Have the French considered those women might be doing the public a favor by covering up?
37 posted on
08/15/2009 5:41:17 PM PDT by
Nachoman
(Think of life as an adventure you don't survive.)
To: Cronos
I guess I’ve seen everything now. A swim suit being banned because its not revealing enough? Have the French considered those women might be doing the public a favor by covering up?
38 posted on
08/15/2009 5:41:24 PM PDT by
Nachoman
(Think of life as an adventure you don't survive.)
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